Hafer

Thanx for that! But the "activation file" isnt the problem. I have it in my folder. But it only opens an empty black command promt and nothing happens... This one: leads to: Thats the whole story.

I know this tool, but where can i start it from? Isnt the "activate new products"-link trying to start it. I cant found an *exe in the folder.

I found no solution to this so i opended a ticket. Lets see... I guess it has something to do with WIN11 and licence activation.

Got it installed right form the one v203 installer. But after clicking "Activate..." i got only for a few seconds:

Ok, i went to the download site again and there is a big package. Sorry for my faults. I`ll try it now.

Thank you for your quick reply! The "uprade 4" is just 45.8 mb big. I installed it and clicked the "Activate New Products"-link. But it only opened and empty black command prompt for a few seconds and nothing happend.

Thank you very much for your nice words, which really lift my depressed mood a bit. With kind regards Hafer

Thank you! I love the battlefront support. But at the moment i have no more energy to invest (sorry, i am an old man). I tried to open "Activate new products" but it only opend the command prompt for a few seconds. I took a look at kaspersky and checked other things - no success. Red Thunder is running without problems. I ve read a few books about peiper and stuff so i tried to play the campaign again. I will switch to an hexbase game to have things running.

Hi folks, maybe its not the right time to post cause i`m really upset. Anyway. New PC. I installed CMFB and try to start the game - nothing happend. Applied patches, upgrades - nothing happend. Used Admin mode - nothing happend. And with all those different files its not easy to find the right order. I CANT PLAY THE GAME CAUSE NOTHIN HAPPENS I have almost any CM-title since the beginning. I love them all. But i really hate those upgrade/activation stuff - sorry. Cheers Hafer

Oh well, finally. After lots of tries and reloads. Cant imagine. 2/3 of the time was incredible hard. The last 1/3 was a slaughterhouse - for the russians. The "green" german infantry were most of the time pretty useless. Only when the path was cleared from enemys they could andvance. Only a few shots taken from (one) enemy and they got shaken. The only thing working for me was a "tank scan" even through forests. In line-formation ww1-style scanning the area. the funny thing is: even if i used ship-arty in combination with surpression-fire the enemy AT-guns kept fireing. Incredible. The area around the AT-gun was scattered with crates, but the AT-gun-crew - sometimes only one soldier - kept fireing. That was the hardest time form me. And because of the preparation time for the arty-crews the time was running fast for me.

My findings after hours in this brilliant scenario: 1. The forest is a hard nut. But with tanks and infantry it is possible to take it. 2. The biggest thread are the well placed and hidden 76mm russians Paks. 3. The only way to defeat them (for my) are my stugs fireing out of deep in the forests. 4. Arty takes too long, Inf has not the range

Despite of my troubles i really like those hard missions. Its frustrating for a while but if it happens you really enjoy the victory. Thanks to the designer.

Puhh, i`m getting really mad. Tried fighting the enemy about the whole day. No success. The paks are too precice. My soldiers are too weak ("green" experience). I thing i`ll give up in the next turns. How can i neutralize those paks? My tanks are blind idiots. My infantry cannot reach them. My arty is too slow and not precise. I'm playing CM round about 25 years now and i`m a f*** noob

Ok, now i managed to conquer the forest, but. There are a few nasty russian paks out of range of my squads. The arty support is slow (9min) and my tanks cant spot them. WHAT A bloody hell!!!

I guess not the most realistic aproach but it works quite well.